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Introduction to credit operating leverage

For the last couple of years the broad economy has experienced an extraordinarily high level of operating leverage and consequently since 2000, companies have cut costs. The best evidence of that elevated level of operating leverage is the very low rate of industrial capacity utilization. Despite the modest improvement since 2001, utilization is still at levels not seen since the 1982 recession. On the one hand, that is a sign that businesses continue to suffer from overcapacity. Looked at it another way, however, the low-but-improving rate of capacity utilization is an indication that profits may grow above average in the future.

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